Watchmen (2009)

Watchmen Synopsis

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?

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During a recent AMA, Jackie Earle Haley dropped a lot of knowledge on the Redditors who dared to question the man who was Rorschach. In the middle of some awesome inside knowledge about Watchmen and becoming a first time director, he even named what he feels is the worst movie ever made.

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